Nobody wanks like academics wank!
The Lancet (or at least its Editor, Richard Horton), and the Royal Society have been getting all down-and-dirty lately.

Horton started it, mostly with this:

The Royal Society began as a radical idea—a place to discuss the subversive subject of science and to witness remarkable experiments. It was an “invisible college” of natural philosophers who aimed to improve “Natural Knowledge”. But the Royal Society today is a lazy institution, resting on its historical laurels. Instead of being the intellectual hub of European scientific culture, it has reinvented itself as something far more self-serving and parochial. It is little more than a shrill and superficial cheerleader for British science. Its modern mission is about domestic image rather than international substance.

Well, they're not going to take that lying down!